YOU WILL MAKE IT!

It reaches a point in life when circumstances push you to the walls with nowhere to run to. These pressing moments may even persist for a long period of time but what determines whether you will conquer or not is the way you handle the situation.

Many people tend to give up long before they even tried. Let me give my own example. When I was in high school, I literally formed an opinion in my mind that I cannot pass in Mathematics and sure enough my performance in the subject proved the same. I even came to a point of identifying Mathematics as "My weakness". I would hear People talk about maths and felt so bad.

What discouraged me most was seeing some of my friends doing very well and enjoying it. My self esteem went totally down and thought of myself as being very powerless and helpless. I was at the verge of quitting since I saw that time was not on my side and knew that no miracle would happen. It also happened that when the teacher came to class for Maths lessons I saw no need of being there. To me, it was like he was speaking a language that was not in existence. I thank the teacher because he tried his level best even to call me to his office and formed groups so that I could be assisted. But let me tell you, whatever you believe you are, that's exactly who you are. I remember a time when I didn't tackle even a single sum in a C.A.T. All the sums were "difficult" according to me.

Brethren it is so discouraging to be in such a situation but I thank God for sending someone to tell me that I could reverse everything and move on. Even upto my final year, I would not get good grades in the subject but after realizing that I was losing the battle even before going into it things started changing. I started loving Mathematics and developed a positive attitude towards it.

Gradually my passion for the subject grew and eventually brethren I scored a B- in Mathematics.

What am I saying, it does not matter how long you stay in a certain depression, doesn't matter what people say, what matters is what you think about it. Ladies and gentlemen at times we are slaves of our own thoughts and beliefs. We limit ourselves to only what we can see and what people say about us. We even go a step further proclaiming a certain weakness as our weakness, as in we can do nothing about that.

This reminds me of the spies in Numbers 13. The people were sent to spy the land they were to go to and brought a report of what they say. It was encouraging that all of them talked good of the fruits of that land. But a section now comented on the impossibility of them conquering the land and said that those people were too big to be defeated. They even likened themselves to grasshoppers before the eyes of those people. Remember this was not the opinion of those people but the opinion of the spies themselves.

But another section talked of the possibility and charged others to go forth and occupy the land for they certainly can do it.

Do not keep on hearing what others say about something, some even may have never seen them. Theirs is just to discourage you from taking your steps to success.

You may have tried and tried and tried with no success, am here to tell you, don't give up. You have not wasted time, you have just learnt several ways that didn't work. Just have the right attitude towards everything you set your hands to do and success will be guaranteed. If today didn't work out well for you, do not lose hope, remember there is tomorrow for you to do better. When you fall down, rise up, shake the dust and move on.

Do not lose hope, it is going to be well with you.